Clock Catalogue#

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Clock name

Data type

Species

Predicts

Training target

Unit

Tissue

Platform

Population

Model type

N features

Year

Citations

Citations date

Last author

Journal

DOI

Notes

Preprocess

Postprocess

Reference values

Verified

altumage

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

Illumina 27K | Illumina 450K

all ages

deep neural network

20318

2022

145

2026-07-05

Ritambhara Singh

npj Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41514-022-00085-y

Pan-tissue chronological-age predictor using a five-hidden-layer neural network and 20,318 CpGs shared across the 27K, 450K and EPIC manifests; the actual training data came from 27K and 450K datasets.

scale

True

By authors

bitage

transcriptomics

Caenorhabditis elegans

biological age

biological age

hours

whole organism

RNA-seq

Caenorhabditis elegans

elastic net regression

576

2021

173

2026-07-05

Björn Schumacher

Aging Cell

https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.13320

Binarized whole-organism C. elegans RNA-seq clock that estimates temporally rescaled biological age; the released linear predictor sums coefficients for genes binarized on plus a 103.55-hour intercept.

binarize

By authors

camilloh3k27ac

histone modification

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

ChIP-seq

all ages

PCA + elastic net + ARD regression

1275

2025

4

2026-07-05

Ritambhara Singh

Science Advances

https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk9373

Pan-tissue chronological-age predictor trained on gene-level H3K27ac ChIP-seq enrichment; ElasticNet feature selection is followed by truncated-SVD PCA and automatic relevance determination regression.

By authors

camilloh3k27me3

histone modification

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

ChIP-seq

all ages

PCA + elastic net + ARD regression

922

2025

4

2026-07-05

Ritambhara Singh

Science Advances

https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk9373

Pan-tissue chronological-age predictor trained on gene-level H3K27me3 ChIP-seq enrichment; ElasticNet feature selection is followed by truncated-SVD PCA and automatic relevance determination regression.

By authors

camilloh3k36me3

histone modification

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

ChIP-seq

all ages

PCA + elastic net + ARD regression

870

2025

4

2026-07-05

Ritambhara Singh

Science Advances

https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk9373

Pan-tissue chronological-age predictor trained on gene-level H3K36me3 ChIP-seq enrichment; ElasticNet feature selection is followed by truncated-SVD PCA and automatic relevance determination regression.

By authors

camilloh3k4me1

histone modification

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

ChIP-seq

all ages

PCA + elastic net + ARD regression

892

2025

4

2026-07-05

Ritambhara Singh

Science Advances

https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk9373

Pan-tissue chronological-age predictor trained on gene-level H3K4me1 ChIP-seq enrichment; ElasticNet feature selection is followed by truncated-SVD PCA and automatic relevance determination regression.

By authors

camilloh3k4me3

histone modification

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

ChIP-seq

all ages

PCA + elastic net + ARD regression

1240

2025

4

2026-07-05

Ritambhara Singh

Science Advances

https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk9373

Pan-tissue chronological-age predictor trained on gene-level H3K4me3 ChIP-seq enrichment; ElasticNet feature selection is followed by truncated-SVD PCA and automatic relevance determination regression.

By authors

camilloh3k9ac

histone modification

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

ChIP-seq

all ages

PCA + elastic net + ARD regression

102

2025

4

2026-07-05

Ritambhara Singh

Science Advances

https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk9373

Pan-tissue chronological-age predictor trained on gene-level H3K9ac ChIP-seq enrichment; ElasticNet feature selection is followed by truncated-SVD PCA and automatic relevance determination regression.

By authors

camilloh3k9me3

histone modification

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

ChIP-seq

all ages

PCA + elastic net + ARD regression

341

2025

4

2026-07-05

Ritambhara Singh

Science Advances

https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk9373

Pan-tissue chronological-age predictor trained on gene-level H3K9me3 ChIP-seq enrichment; ElasticNet feature selection is followed by truncated-SVD PCA and automatic relevance determination regression.

By authors

camillopanhistone

histone modification

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

ChIP-seq

all ages

PCA + elastic net + ARD regression

3739

2025

4

2026-07-05

Ritambhara Singh

Science Advances

https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk9373

Pan-tissue, pan-histone chronological-age predictor trained on gene-level ChIP-seq enrichment from seven histone modifications; ElasticNet feature selection is followed by truncated-SVD PCA and automatic relevance determination regression.

By authors

cpgptgrimage3

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

biological age | mortality risk

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adults

Cox proportional hazards regression

24

2024

30

2026-07-05

Bo Wang

bioRxiv

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.24.619766

CpGPTGrimAge3 implementation combining chronological age, GrimAge2 DNAm proxies, and CpGPT-predicted plasma-protein proxies in a Cox linear predictor that is calibrated to years.

scale

cox_to_years

By authors

cpgptpcgrimage3

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

biological age | mortality risk

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adults

PCA + Cox regression

31

2024

30

2026-07-05

Bo Wang

bioRxiv

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.24.619766

Principal-component CpGPTGrimAge3 implementation combining chronological age, GrimAge2 DNAm proxies, and CpGPT-predicted plasma-protein proxies; 30 proxy inputs are projected to 29 PCs, entered with age into a Cox linear predictor, and calibrated to years.

scale

cox_to_years

By authors

dunedinpace

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

pace of aging

pace of aging

biological years per chronological year

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

adults

elastic net regression

20000

2022

967

2026-07-05

Terrie E. Moffitt

eLife

https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.73420

Whole-blood elastic-net pace-of-aging biomarker trained at age 45 against a 20-year longitudinal slope composite of 19 organ-system biomarkers. PyAging follows the official 20,000-probe quantile-normalization panel: 173 scoring CpGs plus 19,827 background probes.

quantile_normalization_with_gold_standard

True

By authors

han

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K

all ages

linear regression

65

2020

102

2026-07-05

Wolfgang Wagner

BMC Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00807-2

Whole-blood 65-CpG multivariable linear age predictor selected for robust targeted measurement; it fits Horvath-transformed chronological age and inverse-transforms the return to years.

anti_log_linear

By authors

knight

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

gestational age

gestational age

weeks

cord blood | neonatal blood spots

Illumina 27K | Illumina 450K

newborns

elastic net regression

148

2016

312

2026-07-05

Alicia K. Smith

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-1068-z

Elastic-net DNA-methylation estimator of gestational age at birth trained across six cord-blood and neonatal blood-spot cohorts, using 148 CpGs shared across the 27K and 450K arrays.

True

By authors

leecontrol

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

gestational age

gestational age

weeks

placenta

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

pregnancies

elastic net regression

546

2019

170

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.102049

Control placental clock trained on placentas designated as controls, with known major placental pathology excluded.

By authors

leerefinedrobust

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

gestational age

gestational age

weeks

placenta

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

pregnancies

elastic net regression

395

2019

170

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.102049

Refined robust placental clock fitted within uncomplicated term pregnancies (gestational age >36 weeks) using the original RPC loci as candidates.

By authors

leerobust

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

gestational age

gestational age

weeks

placenta

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

pregnancies

elastic net regression

558

2019

170

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.102049

Robust placental clock trained across placentas with and without pregnancy complications and congenital abnormalities.

By authors

pasta

transcriptomics

Homo sapiens

transcriptomic age

age ordering

years

multi-tissue

RNA-seq | gene expression microarray

human, age unspecified

ridge logistic regression

8113

2025

1

2026-07-05

Christian G. Riedel

bioRxiv

https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.04.657785

Human Pasta age-shift classifier applied to within-sample rank-transformed expression. It converts a ridge-logistic older-versus-younger log-odds score to an age score.

median_fill_and_rank_normalization

scale_and_shift

True

By authors

pastamouse

transcriptomics

Mus musculus

transcriptomic age

age ordering

years

multi-tissue

RNA-seq | gene expression microarray

human, age unspecified

orthologue-transferred ridge logistic regression

1600

2025

1

2026-07-05

Christian G. Riedel

bioRxiv

https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.04.657785

Mouse application of the human Pasta model after mapping one-to-one orthologues, rank transformation, and median imputation of missing model genes.

median_fill_and_rank_normalization

scale_and_shift

True

By authors

pipekelasticnet

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

Illumina 27K | Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

all ages

elastic net regression

239

2022

2

2026-07-05

István Csabai

Journal of Mathematical Chemistry

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10910-022-01381-4

Pan-tissue, cross-platform elastic-net chronological-age clock trained on all eligible CpGs; 239 CpGs retained non-zero coefficients.

anti_log_linear

By authors

pipekfilteredh

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

Illumina 27K | Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

all ages

elastic net regression

272

2022

2

2026-07-05

István Csabai

Journal of Mathematical Chemistry

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10910-022-01381-4

Penalized refit restricted to the 308 original Horvath CpGs shared with the study probe set; 272 CpGs retained non-zero coefficients.

anti_log_linear

By authors

pipekretrainedh

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

Illumina 27K | Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

all ages

linear regression

308

2022

2

2026-07-05

István Csabai

Journal of Mathematical Chemistry

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10910-022-01381-4

Unpenalized refit of all 308 original Horvath CpGs shared across 27K, 450K, and EPIC data; unlike the other variants it was fit without cross-validation.

anti_log_linear

By authors

reg

transcriptomics

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

RNA-seq | gene expression microarray

human, age unspecified

ridge regression

8113

2025

1

2026-07-05

Christian G. Riedel

bioRxiv

https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.04.657785

Baseline chronological-age regression model from the Pasta study, using rank-transformed multi-tissue human expression.

median_fill_and_rank_normalization

add_constant

True

By authors

stemtoc

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

mitotic age

population doublings | chronological age

beta value

multi-tissue | cultured human cells | whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

all ages

95th-percentile methylation aggregation

371

2024

24

2026-07-05

Andrew E. Teschendorff

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48649-8

Relative mitotic-age counter based on the 95th percentile across 371 in-vivo-filtered mitotic CpGs.

0.95 quantile

True

By authors

stoch

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

sorted monocytes

Illumina 450K

adults

elastic net regression

353

2024

66

2026-07-05

Andrew E. Teschendorff

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-00600-8

Stochastic chronological-age clock built from simulated methylation trajectories at the Horvath clock CpGs; it is a stochastic counterpart, not the original Horvath clock.

By authors

stocp

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

sorted monocytes

Illumina 450K

adults

elastic net regression

513

2024

66

2026-07-05

Andrew E. Teschendorff

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-00600-8

Stochastic chronological-age clock built from simulated methylation trajectories at PhenoAge CpGs; despite its CpG source, its fitted outcome and returned construct are chronological age, not PhenoAge.

By authors

stocz

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

sorted monocytes

Illumina 450K

adults

elastic net regression

514

2024

66

2026-07-05

Andrew E. Teschendorff

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-00600-8

Stochastic chronological-age clock built from simulated methylation trajectories at Zhang clock CpGs; it is a stochastic counterpart, not the original Zhang clock.

By authors

thompson

DNA methylation

Mus musculus

chronological age

chronological age

months

adipose tissue | blood | cerebellum | brain cortex | heart | kidney | liver | lung | skeletal muscle | spleen

RRBS

mice

elastic net regression

582

2018

236

2026-07-05

Matteo Pellegrini

Aging (Albany NY)

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101590

Full-lifespan multi-tissue mouse DNA-methylation clock fit by elastic net to RRBS CpG methylation across 1,147 samples from ten tissues and multiple strains; the 582-site all-CpG model estimates chronological age and detects intervention- and genotype-associated age acceleration.

By authors

abec

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

adults

elastic net regression

1695

2020

21

2026-07-05

Jon Bohlin

BMC Genomics

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-07168-8

Adult Blood-based EPIC Clock trained by elastic-net regression of chronological age on whole-blood EPIC methylation in 1,592 MoBa-START adults aged 19–59 years.

Not yet

adbahadosingh

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

late-onset Alzheimer’s disease

late-onset Alzheimer’s disease

probability

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

older adults

logistic regression

4

2021

33

2026-07-05

Uppala Radhakrishna

PLOS ONE

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248375

PyAging implements the paper’s conventional four-CpG logistic-regression equation and applies a sigmoid to return LOAD case probability; it does not implement the separate high-dimensional deep-learning classifiers also evaluated in the paper.

sigmoid

Not yet

bocklandt

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

EDARADD methylation

chronological age

beta value

saliva

Illumina 27K

adults

single-CpG score

1

2011

1057

2026-07-05

Éric Vilain

PLoS ONE

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014821

Package-facing one-CpG identity score: pyaging returns raw cg09809672 methylation with coefficient 1 and zero intercept. The published saliva age regression instead uses EDARADD and NPTX2, including an EDARADD-squared basis term; that published age model is not implemented.

Not yet

bohlin

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

gestational age

gestational age

weeks

cord blood

Illumina 450K

newborns

LASSO regression

251

2016

237

2026-07-05

Wenche Nystad

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-1063-4

Official minimum-lambda variant of the Bohlin gestational-age LASSO: pyaging implements the 251-CpG lambda.min model and converts its day-scale output to weeks. The paper/package default one-standard-error variant uses 96 CpGs and has nearly identical predictive performance.

days_to_weeks

Not yet

cabec

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

adults

elastic net regression

1892

2020

21

2026-07-05

Jon Bohlin

BMC Genomics

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-07168-8

Common Adult Blood-based EPIC Clock trained on the extended adult whole-blood dataset but restricted to autosomal CpGs shared by the Illumina 450K and EPIC arrays.

Not yet

cellpopage

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

cell-population passage age

cell passage number

passages

cultured fibroblasts

Illumina EPIC

human cell cultures

elastic net regression

42

2024

6

2026-07-05

Ivana Bjedov

Genome Medicine

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-024-01349-w

CellPopAge is an elastic-net DNA-methylation clock using 42 selected CpGs to predict passage-based age of serially cultured adult primary human fibroblast populations and screen compounds that decelerate this measure.

Not yet

compil6

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

interleukin-6

interleukin-6

unitless

whole blood

Illumina 450K

older adults

elastic net regression

35

2021

55

2026-07-05

Riccardo E. Marioni

The Journals of Gerontology: Series A

https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glab046

Thirty-five-CpG whole-blood proxy score for persistent IL-6-related inflammatory burden, fitted against covariate-adjusted normalized plasma IL-6.

Not yet

corticalclock

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

brain cortex

Illumina 450K

human, age unspecified

elastic net regression

347

2020

206

2026-07-05

Jonathan Mill

Brain

https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaa334

Cortex-specific DNA-methylation chronological-age estimator trained by elastic net on 1,047 post-mortem cortical samples; its 347-CpG weighted score is back-transformed to years.

anti_log_linear

True

Not yet

ctsliver

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

liver

Illumina EPIC

adults

LASSO regression

90

2024

25

2026-07-05

Andrew E. Teschendorff

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.206184

LiverClock is a liver tissue-specific chronological-age clock trained by lasso on age-associated CpGs identified after adjustment for five estimated liver cell fractions; unlike HepClock, it is not hepatocyte-specific.

Not yet

cvdwesterman

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

cardiovascular disease risk

cardiovascular disease

probability

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adults

elastic net Cox ensemble

235

2020

53

2026-07-05

José M. Ordovás

Journal of the American Heart Association

https://doi.org/10.1161/jaha.119.015299

Whole-blood DNA-methylation score for cardiovascular risk. The paper’s final cross-study learner stacks cohort-specific elastic-net Cox models; the packaged pyaging implementation is a 235-CpG linear score followed by a sigmoid.

sigmoid

Not yet

deconvolutebloodepicbcell

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

B cell proportion

cell-type-specific methylation contrast

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

600

2018

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1448-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the B cell proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. Pyaging uses the paper’s automatic 600-CpG top-hypermethylated/top-hypomethylated reference, not the paper’s preferred 450-CpG EPIC IDOL library.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

deconvolutebloodepiccd4tcell

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

CD4+ T cell proportion

cell-type-specific methylation contrast

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

600

2018

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1448-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the CD4+ T cell proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. Pyaging uses the paper’s automatic 600-CpG top-hypermethylated/top-hypomethylated reference, not the paper’s preferred 450-CpG EPIC IDOL library.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

deconvolutebloodepiccd8tcell

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

CD8+ T cell proportion

cell-type-specific methylation contrast

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

600

2018

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1448-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the CD8+ T cell proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. Pyaging uses the paper’s automatic 600-CpG top-hypermethylated/top-hypomethylated reference, not the paper’s preferred 450-CpG EPIC IDOL library.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

deconvolutebloodepicmonocyte

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

monocyte proportion

cell-type-specific methylation contrast

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

600

2018

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1448-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the monocyte proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. Pyaging uses the paper’s automatic 600-CpG top-hypermethylated/top-hypomethylated reference, not the paper’s preferred 450-CpG EPIC IDOL library.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

deconvolutebloodepicneutrophil

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

neutrophil proportion

cell-type-specific methylation contrast

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

600

2018

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1448-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the neutrophil proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. Pyaging uses the paper’s automatic 600-CpG top-hypermethylated/top-hypomethylated reference, not the paper’s preferred 450-CpG EPIC IDOL library.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

deconvolutebloodepicnkcell

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

natural killer cell proportion

cell-type-specific methylation contrast

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

600

2018

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1448-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the natural killer (NK) cell proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. Pyaging uses the paper’s automatic 600-CpG top-hypermethylated/top-hypomethylated reference, not the paper’s preferred 450-CpG EPIC IDOL library.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

depressionbarbu

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

major depressive disorder

major depressive disorder

unitless

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

adults

elastic net regression

196

2021

93

2026-07-05

Andrew M. McIntosh

Molecular Psychiatry

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-020-0808-3

Blood methylation risk score for major depressive disorder built with penalised regression on genome-wide EPIC-array CpGs, trained on over 1,200 cases and 1,800 controls. Discriminates prevalent from incident MDD independently of polygenic risk, with a smoking-independent variant also derived.

Not yet

dnamfili

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

frailty risk

frailty

unitless

whole blood

Illumina EPIC | Illumina 450K

older adults

LASSO regression

20

2022

22

2026-07-05

Hermann Brenner

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32893-x

Epigenetic frailty risk score (eFRS), a weighted 20-CpG whole-blood DNA-methylation score selected by LASSO from replicated frailty-associated loci.

Not yet

dnamfitage

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

physical-fitness biological age

biological age

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adults

Klemera–Doubal composite

630

2023

99

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204538

Sex-specific Klemera–Doubal biological-age composite combining DNAm gait speed, grip strength, VO2max, and DNAmGrimAge.

True

Not yet

dnamfitagegaitf

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

gait speed

gait speed

meters per second

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adult women

LASSO regression

53

2023

99

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204538

Female-specific blood DNAm gait-speed estimator without chronological age as an input.

True

Not yet

dnamfitagegaitm

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

gait speed

gait speed

meters per second

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adult men

LASSO regression

59

2023

99

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204538

Male-specific blood DNAm gait-speed estimator without chronological age as an input.

True

Not yet

dnamfitagegripf

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

grip strength

grip strength

kilograms

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adult women

LASSO regression

91

2023

99

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204538

Female-specific blood DNAm maximum-handgrip-strength estimator without chronological age as an input.

True

Not yet

dnamfitagegripm

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

grip strength

grip strength

kilograms

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adult men

LASSO regression

93

2023

99

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204538

Male-specific blood DNAm maximum-handgrip-strength estimator without chronological age as an input.

True

Not yet

dnamfitagevo2max

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

VO2max

VO2max

milliliters per kilogram per minute

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adults

LASSO regression

41

2023

99

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204538

Joint-sex blood DNAm estimator of maximal oxygen uptake; 40 CpGs plus chronological age are packaged as 41 inputs.

True

Not yet

dnamic

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

intrinsic capacity

intrinsic capacity

unitless

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

older adults

elastic net regression

91

2025

34

2026-07-05

David Furman

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-00883-5

Whole-blood DNA-methylation predictor of intrinsic capacity, an average score across cognition, locomotion, psychological, sensory, and vitality domains; trained with tenfold cross-validated elastic net on INSPIRE-T and returning higher values for better capacity.

Not yet

dnamphenoage

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

phenotypic age

phenotypic age

years

whole blood

Illumina 27K | Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

adults

elastic net regression

513

2018

3594

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101414

Blood DNA-methylation estimator trained by elastic net on 513 CpGs common to the 27K, 450K and EPIC arrays to reproduce a mortality-derived clinical Phenotypic Age.

Not yet

dnamstress

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

stress exposure

stress exposure

unitless

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

adults

bootstrap-stabilized elastic net regression

211

2023

27

2026-07-05

Falk W. Lohoff

Biological Psychiatry

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.06.036

Whole-blood methylation score (MS stress) derived as a 211-CpG proxy for a composite of 13 stress-related measures.

Not yet

dnamtl

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

leukocyte telomere length

leukocyte telomere length

kilobases

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

adults

elastic net regression

140

2019

461

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.102173

Elastic-net blood DNA-methylation estimator of measured leukocyte telomere length, using 140 CpGs shared by the Illumina 450K and EPIC arrays and returning kilobases.

Not yet

downsyndrome

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

Down syndrome methylation score

not applicable

unitless

neonatal blood spots

Illumina EPIC

newborns

weighted linear score

652

2021

62

2026-07-05

Adam J. de Smith

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21064-z

Implementation-derived Down-syndrome-associated methylation projection score: pyaging computes a zero-intercept weighted sum of 652 neonatal blood-spot beta values using the paper’s autosomal EWAS beta_overall effect estimates. The paper presents an EWAS, not a trained or validated Down syndrome classifier.

Not yet

dunedinpoam38

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

pace of aging

pace of aging

biological years per chronological year

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adults

elastic net regression

46

2020

666

2026-07-05

Terrie E. Moffitt

eLife

https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.54870

Whole-blood elastic-net estimator of the rate of biological aging, trained at age 38 against a longitudinal 18-biomarker Pace-of-Aging composite measured over ages 26–38.

Not yet

eabec

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

adults

elastic net regression

1791

2020

21

2026-07-05

Jon Bohlin

BMC Genomics

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-07168-8

Extended Adult Blood-based EPIC Clock trained by elastic-net regression on combined MoBa-START and GEO adult whole-blood EPIC methylation data.

Not yet

encen100

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood | saliva | buccal epithelium

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

centenarians

elastic net regression

198

2023

45

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

GeroScience

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-023-00731-7

Elastic-net DNAm-age clock trained only in 184 centenarians aged 100–115; the authors advise against routine use but identify possible utility for evaluating supercentenarians.

Not yet

encen40

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood | saliva | buccal epithelium

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

older adults

elastic net regression

559

2023

45

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

GeroScience

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-023-00731-7

Elastic-net DNAm-age clock trained in 7,039 people aged 40–115, including centenarians, to reduce extreme-old-age underestimation.

Not yet

ensembleagehumanmouse

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens and Mus musculus

relative age

relative age

relative age

multi-tissue | whole blood

mammalian methylation array

humans and mice

elastic net regression

100

2025

3

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

GeroScience

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-025-01808-1

Cross-species static EnsembleAge model trained on merged human and mouse methylation data; age is normalized by species maximum lifespan.

Not yet

ensembleagestatic

DNA methylation

Mus musculus

intervention-responsive epigenetic age

intervention-responsive epigenetic age

years

multi-tissue

Horvath MammalMethylChip40 | Horvath MammalMethylChip320

mice

elastic net regression

288

2025

3

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

GeroScience

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-025-01808-1

Single elastic-net static predictor of the median EnsembleAge.Dynamic calibrated age, trained on perturbed MethylGauge mice.

Not yet

ensembleagestatictop

DNA methylation

Mus musculus

intervention-responsive epigenetic age

intervention-responsive epigenetic age

years

multi-tissue

Horvath MammalMethylChip40 | Horvath MammalMethylChip320

mice

elastic net regression

431

2025

3

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

GeroScience

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-025-01808-1

Static.Top is a single elastic-net predictor of the calibrated age from the most intervention-responsive constituent clock, trained on perturbed MethylGauge mice.

Not yet

epicga

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

gestational age

gestational age

days

cord blood

Illumina EPIC

newborns

LASSO regression

176

2021

54

2026-07-05

Jon Bohlin

Clinical Epigenetics

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-021-01055-z

LASSO predictor of ultrasound-estimated gestational age in days from umbilical cord-blood DNA methylation, trained in 755 non-ART START newborns.

days_to_weeks

Not yet

epicmithyper

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

mitotic age

replicative history

proportion

B cells

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

human, age unspecified

mean methylation aggregation

184

2020

104

2026-07-05

José I. Martín-Subero

Nature Cancer

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43018-020-00131-2

Hypermethylation component of epiCMIT: a 184-CpG score ranging from 0 to 1 that tracks low-to-high relative proliferative history in normal and neoplastic B cells.

mean

True

Not yet

epicmithypo

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

mitotic age

replicative history

proportion

B cells

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

human, age unspecified

complement of mean methylation

1164

2020

104

2026-07-05

José I. Martín-Subero

Nature Cancer

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43018-020-00131-2

Hypomethylation component of epiCMIT: a 1,164-CpG score ranging from 0 to 1 that tracks low-to-high relative proliferative history in normal and neoplastic B cells.

mean

True

Not yet

epitoc1

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

mitotic age

chronological age

beta value

multi-tissue | whole blood

Illumina 450K

all ages

mean methylation aggregation

385

2016

357

2026-07-05

Andrew E. Teschendorff

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-1064-3

Relative mitotic-age score equal to the mean beta value across 385 polycomb-target promoter CpGs; it is not an absolute division count.

mean

True

Not yet

epitoc2

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

mitotic age

chronological age

cell divisions per stem cell

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adults

dynamic methylation transmission model

163

2020

155

2026-07-05

Andrew E. Teschendorff

Genome Medicine

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-020-00752-3

Dynamic methylation-transmission model returning total cumulative stem-cell divisions per stem cell; an intrinsic rate additionally requires chronological age but is not this implementation’s returned value.

nan_to_zero

True

Not yet

epitoc3

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

mitotic age

population doublings

cell divisions per stem cell

cultured primary human cells | whole blood | multi-tissue | cord blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

all ages

dynamic methylation transmission model

170

2020

155

2026-07-05

Andrew E. Teschendorff

Genome Medicine

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-020-00752-3

Code-defined 170-CpG extension of the dynamic mitotic model. Official EpiMitClocks data show that all 170 sites are a subset of the 371 stemTOC vivo-mitCpGs derived from fetal/neonatal references, six normal proliferating cell lines, and three adult whole-blood cohorts. The assigned 2020 dynamic-model paper does not name or define epiTOC3.

nan_to_zero

True

Not yet

garagnani

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

ELOVL2 methylation

not applicable

beta value

whole blood

Illumina 450K

all ages

single-CpG score

1

2012

500

2026-07-05

Claudio Franceschi

Aging Cell

https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.12005

The source study identified age-associated ELOVL2 methylation, but did not publish a one-CpG age equation. Pyaging returns the raw cg16867657 methylation beta value using coefficient 1 and zero intercept; it does not return calibrated chronological age.

Not yet

gliasin

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

brain cortex

Illumina 450K

adults

elastic net regression

220

2024

25

2026-07-05

Andrew E. Teschendorff

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.206184

Glia-Sin is a glia semi-intrinsic chronological-age clock: elastic-net regression was restricted to glia age-DMCTs but fitted to methylation values not adjusted for brain cell fractions.

Not yet

grimage

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

mortality risk

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adults

two-stage elastic net + Cox regression

1032

2019

2610

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging (Albany NY)

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101684

Age-calibrated mortality-risk estimator built in two stages from DNAm surrogates for plasma proteins and smoking pack-years, chronological age, and sex.

cox_to_years

True

Not yet

grimage2

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

mortality risk

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K

older adults

elastic net Cox regression

1032

2022

291

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204434

Mortality-risk epigenetic clock combining ten blood DNAm surrogate biomarkers with chronological age and sex; the Cox linear predictor is calibrated to an age-like value in years.

cox_to_years

True

Not yet

grimage2adm

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

adrenomedullin

adrenomedullin

picograms per milliliter

whole blood

Illumina 450K

older adults

elastic net regression

187

2022

291

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204434

ADM is a vasodilator peptide hormone; DNAm ADM is an inherited GrimAge plasma-protein surrogate.

cox_to_years

True

Not yet

grimage2b2m

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

beta-2-microglobulin

beta-2-microglobulin

picograms per milliliter

whole blood

Illumina 450K

older adults

elastic net regression

92

2022

291

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204434

B2M is linked to kidney function, cardiovascular disease and inflammation; DNAm B2M is a GrimAge component.

cox_to_years

True

Not yet

grimage2cystatinc

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

cystatin C

cystatin C

picograms per milliliter

whole blood

Illumina 450K

older adults

elastic net regression

88

2022

291

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204434

Cystatin C is a kidney-function biomarker; DNAm Cystatin C is a GrimAge component.

cox_to_years

True

Not yet

grimage2gdf15

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

GDF-15

GDF-15

picograms per milliliter

whole blood

Illumina 450K

older adults

elastic net regression

138

2022

291

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204434

GDF-15 is implicated in aging and mitochondrial dysfunction; DNAm GDF-15 is a GrimAge component.

cox_to_years

True

Not yet

grimage2leptin

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

leptin

leptin

picograms per milliliter

whole blood

Illumina 450K

older adults

elastic net regression

187

2022

291

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204434

Leptin is an adipose-derived hormone regulating energy balance; DNAm leptin is a GrimAge component.

cox_to_years

True

Not yet

grimage2loga1c

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

hemoglobin A1c

hemoglobin A1c

natural-log percent

whole blood

Illumina 450K

older adults

elastic net regression

87

2022

291

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204434

DNAm logA1C estimates the natural logarithm of winsorized hemoglobin A1C percentage and was newly added to GrimAge2.

cox_to_years

True

Not yet

grimage2logcrp

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

C-reactive protein

C-reactive protein

natural-log milligrams per liter

whole blood

Illumina 450K

older adults

elastic net regression

132

2022

291

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204434

DNAm logCRP estimates the natural logarithm of winsorized high-sensitivity CRP concentration and was newly added to GrimAge2.

cox_to_years

True

Not yet

grimage2packyrs

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

smoking exposure

smoking exposure

pack-years

whole blood

Illumina 450K

older adults

elastic net regression

173

2022

291

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204434

DNAm PACKYRS is a methylation surrogate for cumulative smoking exposure and a GrimAge component.

cox_to_years

True

Not yet

grimage2pai1

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

PAI-1

PAI-1

picograms per milliliter

whole blood

Illumina 450K

older adults

elastic net regression

211

2022

291

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204434

PAI-1 is linked to inflammation and metabolic conditions; DNAm PAI-1 is a GrimAge component.

True

Not yet

grimage2timp1

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

TIMP-1

TIMP-1

picograms per milliliter

whole blood

Illumina 450K

older adults

elastic net regression

43

2022

291

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204434

TIMP-1 inhibits metalloproteinases and has proliferative/anti-apoptotic roles; DNAm TIMP-1 is a GrimAge component.

cox_to_years

True

Not yet

hannum

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adults

elastic net regression

71

2013

4501

2026-07-05

Kang Zhang

Molecular Cell

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2012.10.016

Whole-blood elastic-net predictor of chronological age from 71 CpG methylation fractions, derived in a 482-person primary cohort and validated in 174 independent participants.

Not yet

hep

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

liver

Illumina EPIC

adults

LASSO regression

70

2024

25

2026-07-05

Andrew E. Teschendorff

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.206184

HepClock is a hepatocyte-specific chronological-age clock trained by lasso on hepatocyte age-DMCTs identified with CellDMC after estimating five liver cell fractions.

Not yet

hepatoxu

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

hepatocellular carcinoma

hepatocellular carcinoma

unitless

plasma cell-free DNA

targeted bisulfite sequencing

adults

feature-selected logistic regression

10

2017

884

2026-07-05

Kang Zhang

Nature Materials

https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4997

Ten-marker plasma cfDNA methylation logistic model producing the combined HCC diagnosis score (cd-score); this packaged model does not implement the separate eight-marker prognosis score.

Not yet

horvath2013

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

Illumina 27K | Illumina 450K

all ages

elastic net regression

353

2013

7318

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2013-14-10-r115

Pan-tissue DNAm-age predictor fitted by elastic net to a transformed chronological-age outcome and returned to the year scale; it uses 353 CpGs shared between the 27K and 450K arrays.

anti_log_linear

True

Not yet

hrsinchphenoage

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

phenotypic age

phenotypic age

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

adults

weighted linear score

959

2022

497

2026-07-05

Morgan E. Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-022-00248-2

CpG-weighted HRS/InCHIANTI retraining of DNAm PhenoAge produced during the PC-clocks work; this implementation is not a principal-component clock.

Not yet

hypoclock

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

mitotic age

not applicable

beta value

multi-tissue

Illumina 450K

human, age unspecified

mean aggregation

678

2020

452

2026-07-05

Andrew E. Teschendorff

Genome Medicine

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-020-00752-3

Pyaging returns an inverted HypoClock burden score, 1 minus the mean beta value across 678 solo-WCGW CpGs; higher values therefore indicate deeper PMD hypomethylation. The assigned 2018 paper is the biological precursor, while the named 678-site implementation is from 2020.

mean

one_minus

True

Not yet

intrinclock

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

all ages

two-stage elastic net regression

380

2024

53

2026-07-05

Eric Verdin

Communications Biology

https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06609-4

Multi-tissue chronological-age clock designed by excluding CpGs associated with CD8+ T-cell differentiation, then fitting two sequential elastic-net models so predictions remain stable across immune-cell composition. The article reports 381 CpGs; the official lambda.min model and this implementation both use the same 380 non-zero CpG inputs.

anti_log_linear

Not yet

lin

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood

Illumina 27K | Illumina 450K

adults

linear regression

99

2016

256

2026-07-05

Wolfgang Wagner

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.100908

Whole-blood 99-CpG multivariate age estimator trained to predict chronological age; age acceleration from the model was secondarily tested for association with all-cause mortality.

Not yet

mammalian1

DNA methylation

multiple species

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

Horvath MammalMethylChip40

multiple mammalian species

elastic net regression

335

2023

390

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-023-00462-6

Universal pan-mammalian clock 1: elastic-net regression of log-transformed chronological age on conserved mammalian-array CpGs, back-transformed to years.

anti_logp2

Not yet

mammalian2

DNA methylation

multiple species

chronological age

relative age

years

multi-tissue

Horvath MammalMethylChip40

multiple mammalian species

elastic net regression

2572

2023

390

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-023-00462-6

Universal pan-mammalian clock 2 fits relative age (age divided by species maximum lifespan) and the author inverse transformation returns species-adjusted chronological age in years.

mammalian2

True

Not yet

mammalian3

DNA methylation

multiple species

chronological age

chronological age

years

multi-tissue

Horvath MammalMethylChip40

multiple mammalian species

elastic net regression

2467

2023

390

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-023-00462-6

Universal pan-mammalian clock 3 fits a log-linear age transformation based on gestation and sexual maturity and returns chronological age in years.

mammalian3

True

Not yet

mammalianblood2

DNA methylation

multiple species

chronological age

relative age

years

blood

Horvath MammalMethylChip40

multiple mammalian species

elastic net regression

2257

2023

390

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-023-00462-6

Blood-specific universal clock 2 fits relative age and returns species-adjusted chronological age in years after the maximum-lifespan inverse transformation.

mammalian2

True

Not yet

mammalianblood3

DNA methylation

multiple species

chronological age

chronological age

years

blood

Horvath MammalMethylChip40

multiple mammalian species

elastic net regression

2097

2023

390

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-023-00462-6

Blood-specific universal clock 3 fits the gestation/maturity-based log-linear age transformation and returns chronological age in years.

mammalian3

True

Not yet

mammalianfemale

DNA methylation

multiple species

sex

sex

probability

multi-tissue

mammalian methylation array

multiple mammalian species

elastic net regression

101

2023

5

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.02.565286

Pan-mammalian elastic-net sex classifier based on conserved CpG methylation; the returned value is the probability that a sample is female.

sigmoid

Not yet

mammalianlifespan

DNA methylation

multiple species

species maximum lifespan

species maximum lifespan

years

multi-tissue

Horvath MammalMethylChip40

multiple mammalian species

elastic net regression

152

2024

5

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Science Advances

https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adm7273

Pan-mammalian tissue-agnostic elastic-net predictor fitted to log species maximum life span from conserved CpG methylation; pyaging exponentiates the linear output to years.

anti_log

True

Not yet

mammalianskin2

DNA methylation

multiple species

chronological age

relative age

years

skin

Horvath MammalMethylChip40

multiple mammalian species

elastic net regression

2240

2023

390

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-023-00462-6

Skin-specific universal clock 2 fits relative age and returns species-adjusted chronological age in years after the maximum-lifespan inverse transformation.

mammalian2

True

Not yet

mammalianskin3

DNA methylation

multiple species

chronological age

chronological age

years

skin

Horvath MammalMethylChip40

multiple mammalian species

elastic net regression

2055

2023

390

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-023-00462-6

Skin-specific universal clock 3 fits the gestation/maturity-based log-linear age transformation and returns chronological age in years.

mammalian3

True

Not yet

mayne

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

gestational age

gestational age

weeks

placenta

Illumina 27K | Illumina 450K

pregnancies

elastic net regression

62

2017

150

2026-07-05

Tina Bianco‐Miotto

Epigenomics

https://doi.org/10.2217/epi-2016-0103

Placental elastic-net clock trained on pooled healthy human placenta methylation datasets; 62 selected CpGs predict gestational age and were used to test age acceleration in early-onset preeclampsia.

Not yet

mccartneyalcohol

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

alcohol consumption

alcohol consumption

units per week

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

adults

LASSO regression

450

2018

301

2026-07-05

Riccardo E. Marioni

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1514-1

Whole-blood DNAm LASSO score for alcohol consumption, trained in Generation Scotland on an age-, sex-, and ancestry-adjusted phenotype residual and evaluated out of sample in LBC1936.

Not yet

mccartneybmi

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

body mass index

body mass index

unitless

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

adults

LASSO regression

1109

2018

301

2026-07-05

Riccardo E. Marioni

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1514-1

Whole-blood DNAm LASSO score for body mass index (BMI), trained in Generation Scotland on an age-, sex-, and ancestry-adjusted phenotype residual and evaluated out of sample in LBC1936.

sigmoid

Not yet

mccartneybodyfat

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

body fat percentage

body fat percentage

unitless

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

adults

LASSO regression

968

2018

301

2026-07-05

Riccardo E. Marioni

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1514-1

Whole-blood DNAm LASSO score for body fat percentage, trained in Generation Scotland on an age-, sex-, and ancestry-adjusted phenotype residual and evaluated out of sample in LBC1936.

sigmoid

Not yet

mccartneyeducation

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

educational attainment

educational attainment

unitless

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

adults

LASSO regression

373

2018

301

2026-07-05

Riccardo E. Marioni

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1514-1

Whole-blood DNAm LASSO score for educational attainment, trained in Generation Scotland on an age-, sex-, and ancestry-adjusted phenotype residual and evaluated out of sample in LBC1936.

sigmoid

Not yet

mccartneyhdlcholesterol

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

HDL cholesterol

HDL cholesterol

unitless

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

adults

LASSO regression

737

2018

301

2026-07-05

Riccardo E. Marioni

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1514-1

Whole-blood DNAm LASSO score for HDL cholesterol, trained in Generation Scotland on an age-, sex-, and ancestry-adjusted phenotype residual and evaluated out of sample in LBC1936.

sigmoid

Not yet

mccartneyldlcholesterol

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

LDL cholesterol

LDL cholesterol

unitless

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

adults

LASSO regression

233

2018

301

2026-07-05

Riccardo E. Marioni

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1514-1

Whole-blood DNAm LASSO score for LDL with remnant cholesterol, trained in Generation Scotland on an age-, sex-, and ancestry-adjusted phenotype residual and evaluated out of sample in LBC1936.

sigmoid

Not yet

mccartneysmoking

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

smoking exposure

smoking exposure

pack-years

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

adults

LASSO regression

233

2018

301

2026-07-05

Riccardo E. Marioni

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1514-1

Whole-blood DNAm LASSO score for smoking exposure (pack-years), trained in Generation Scotland on an age-, sex-, and ancestry-adjusted phenotype residual and evaluated out of sample in LBC1936.

Not yet

mccartneytotalcholesterol

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

total cholesterol

total cholesterol

unitless

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

adults

LASSO regression

204

2018

301

2026-07-05

Riccardo E. Marioni

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1514-1

Whole-blood DNAm LASSO score for total cholesterol, trained in Generation Scotland on an age-, sex-, and ancestry-adjusted phenotype residual and evaluated out of sample in LBC1936.

sigmoid

Not yet

mccartneytotalhdlratio

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio

total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio

ratio

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

adults

LASSO regression

412

2018

301

2026-07-05

Riccardo E. Marioni

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1514-1

Whole-blood DNAm LASSO score for total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio, trained in Generation Scotland on an age-, sex-, and ancestry-adjusted phenotype residual and evaluated out of sample in LBC1936.

Not yet

mccartneywhr

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

waist-to-hip ratio

waist-to-hip ratio

ratio

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

adults

LASSO regression

226

2018

301

2026-07-05

Riccardo E. Marioni

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1514-1

Whole-blood DNAm LASSO score for waist-to-hip ratio, trained in Generation Scotland on an age-, sex-, and ancestry-adjusted phenotype residual and evaluated out of sample in LBC1936.

Not yet

meer

DNA methylation

Mus musculus

chronological age

chronological age

days

multi-tissue

RRBS

mice

elastic net regression

435

2018

203

2026-07-05

Vadim N. Gladyshev

eLife

https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.40675

Whole Lifespan Multi-Tissue (WLMT) mouse clock trained by elastic net on RRBS methylation percentages from untreated wild-type C57BL/6 samples.

Not yet

neusin

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

brain cortex

Illumina 450K

adults

elastic net regression

672

2024

25

2026-07-05

Andrew E. Teschendorff

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.206184

Neu-Sin is a neuron semi-intrinsic chronological-age clock: elastic-net regression was restricted to neuron age-DMCTs but fitted to methylation values not adjusted for brain cell fractions.

Not yet

ocampoatac1

chromatin accessibility

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

peripheral blood mononuclear cells

ATAC-seq

adults

elastic net regression

228

2023

49

2026-07-05

Alejandro Ocampo

GeroScience

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-023-00986-0

Published final ATAC-clock coefficient-table implementation using 228 open chromatin regions from the 80,400-region input peak set.

tpm_norm_log1p

Not yet

ocampoatac2

chromatin accessibility

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

peripheral blood mononuclear cells

ATAC-seq

adults

elastic net regression

380

2023

49

2026-07-05

Alejandro Ocampo

GeroScience

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-023-00986-0

Alternate packaged implementation loaded from the authors’ GitHub final_coefs.tsv; it represents the same uncorrected final ATAC-clock target, not a deployable cell-composition-corrected clock.

tpm_norm_log1p

Not yet

pcdnamtl

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

leukocyte telomere length

DNAmTL output

base pairs

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adults

PCA + elastic net regression

78464

2022

497

2026-07-05

Morgan E. Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-022-00248-2

Principal-component proxy trained to reproduce the original DNAmTL clock score; the implemented returned score is on the DNAmTL base-pair scale.

True

Not yet

pcgrimage

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

mortality risk

DNAm GrimAge output

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adults

PCA + elastic net regression

78466

2022

497

2026-07-05

Morgan E. Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-022-00248-2

Principal-component proxy trained to reproduce the original DNAm GrimAge score; age and sex are additional model inputs.

True

Not yet

pchannum

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

Hannum clock output

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adults

PCA + elastic net regression

78464

2022

497

2026-07-05

Morgan E. Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-022-00248-2

Principal-component proxy trained to reproduce the original Hannum whole-blood age-clock score.

True

Not yet

pchorvath2013

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

Horvath clock output

years

multi-tissue

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

all ages

PCA + elastic net regression

78464

2022

497

2026-07-05

Morgan E. Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-022-00248-2

Principal-component proxy of the 2013 Horvath pan-tissue clock, trained against the original clock score using substituted multi-tissue datasets.

anti_log_linear

True

Not yet

pcphenoage

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

phenotypic age

phenotypic age

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

adults

PCA + elastic net regression

78464

2022

497

2026-07-05

Morgan E. Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-022-00248-2

Principal-component DNAm PhenoAge model trained directly on phenotypic-age scores rather than as a proxy of the original CpG clock.

True

Not yet

pcskinandblood

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

skin-and-blood clock output

years

skin | whole blood | cultured fibroblasts

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

all ages

PCA + elastic net regression

78464

2022

497

2026-07-05

Morgan E. Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-022-00248-2

Principal-component proxy of the skin-and-blood age clock, trained against the original Horvath2 score using skin, blood, and fibroblast datasets.

anti_log_linear

True

Not yet

pedbe

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

buccal epithelium

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

children and adolescents

elastic net regression

94

2020

292

2026-07-05

Michael S. Kobor

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820843116

Pediatric chronological-age estimator developed specifically for noninvasive buccal epithelial-cell samples.

anti_log_linear

Not yet

petkovich

DNA methylation

Mus musculus

chronological age

chronological age

months

whole blood

bisulfite sequencing

mice

elastic net regression

90

2017

441

2026-07-05

Vadim N. Gladyshev

Cell Metabolism

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2017.03.016

Mouse blood DNA-methylation age clock built by regression on reduced-representation bisulfite-sequencing CpGs, estimating biological age and shown to be slowed by lifespan-extending interventions such as caloric restriction and dwarfism.

petkovich

Not yet

phenoage

clinical biomarkers

Homo sapiens

phenotypic age

mortality

years

blood

clinical laboratory assays

adults

penalized hazards regression with Gompertz calibration

10

2018

3594

2026-07-05

Steve Horvath

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101414

Clinical Phenotypic Age combines chronological age with nine blood biomarkers selected by penalized mortality regression and expresses mortality risk as an equivalent age in years.

mortality_to_phenoage

Not yet

prostatecancerkirby

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

prostate cancer

prostate cancer

log odds

prostate

Illumina 450K

adult men

logistic regression

3

2017

61

2026-07-05

Richard M. Myers

BMC Cancer

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-017-3252-2

Three-CpG prostate-tissue diagnostic classifier distinguishing malignant from benign-adjacent tissue; it was trained on 73 tumors and 63 benign-adjacent samples and externally validated in TCGA.

Not yet

reedbmi

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

BMI methylation score

body mass index

unitless

whole blood | cord blood

Illumina 450K

all ages

weighted methylation aggregation

135

2020

86

2026-07-05

Gibran Hemani

Clinical Epigenetics

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-020-00841-5

Weighted blood-DNA-methylation score built from published BMI EWAS effect estimates and evaluated across the ARIES life course; it is a biomarker associated with concurrent BMI, not a calibrated prediction in kilograms.

Not yet

replitali

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

replicative history

population doublings

population doublings

cultured primary human cells

Illumina EPIC

human cell cultures

elastic net regression

87

2022

86

2026-07-05

Peter W. Laird

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34268-8

Final RepliTali model estimating relative cumulative replicative history from methylation in common partially methylated domains; it was fitted to normalized population doublings across serially cultured primary human cells.

Not yet

replitalinorm

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

replicative history

population doublings

population doublings

cultured fibroblasts

Illumina EPIC

human cell cultures

elastic net regression

218

2022

86

2026-07-05

Peter W. Laird

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34268-8

Upstream starting-PD normalization model used during RepliTali construction. It was trained only in the chronologically youngest fetal skin fibroblast line (AG06561) to estimate the unobserved pre-culture replicative-history offset; it is not the final 87-CpG RepliTali model.

Not yet

retroelementagev1

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

all ages

elastic net regression

1317

2024

26

2026-07-05

Michael J. Corley

Aging Cell

https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.14288

Whole-blood Retroelement-Age V1, trained by 10-fold-cross-validated elastic net on EPIC v1.0 CpGs annotated to HERV and active LINE elements.

Not yet

retroelementagev2

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood

Illumina EPIC

all ages

elastic net regression

1378

2024

26

2026-07-05

Michael J. Corley

Aging Cell

https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.14288

Composite Retroelement-Age V2 extends the retroelement annotation to CpGs compatible across EPIC v1.0 and v2.0 and was trained by 10-fold-cross-validated elastic net.

Not yet

senchronoage

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

adults

elastic net regression

187

2026

0

2026-07-05

Albert T. Higgins-Chen

Aging Cell

https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70430

Senescence-enriched chronological-age predictor restricted to CpGs whose directions were concordant across in-vitro senescence, age and mortality analyses.

Not yet

sencultureage

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

cellular senescence

cellular senescence

log odds

cultured fibroblasts | cultured mesenchymal stromal cells

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

human cell cultures

elastic net logistic regression

142

2026

0

2026-07-05

Albert T. Higgins-Chen

Aging Cell

https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70430

Binomial elastic-net classifier of in-vitro cellular senescence, trained after ComBat correction on pooled human fibroblast and mesenchymal-stromal-cell datasets and restricted to direction-concordant senescence/age/mortality CpGs.

Not yet

senmortalityage

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

mortality risk

mortality

log hazard

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

adults

elastic net Cox regression

91

2026

0

2026-07-05

Albert T. Higgins-Chen

Aging Cell

https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70430

Senescence-enriched elastic-net Cox predictor of mortality, restricted to direction-concordant senescence/age/mortality CpGs and trained in the Framingham Heart Study.

Not yet

skinandblood

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

buccal epithelium | whole blood | epithelium | cultured fibroblasts | skin | cord blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

all ages

elastic net regression

391

2018

853

2026-07-05

Kenneth Raj

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101508

Multi-tissue 391-CpG elastic-net chronological-age clock optimized with training data from buccal cells, whole blood, epithelium, fibroblasts, skin and cord blood; it is particularly accurate for skin-derived and cultured cells.

anti_log_linear

Not yet

stemtocvitro

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

mitotic age

population doublings

beta value

multi-tissue | cultured human cells

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

prenatal and newborn

95th-percentile methylation aggregation

629

2024

24

2026-07-05

Andrew E. Teschendorff

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48649-8

In-vitro precursor of stemTOC based on the 95th percentile across 629 population-doubling-associated CpGs.

0.95 quantile

True

Not yet

stubbs

DNA methylation

Mus musculus

chronological age

chronological age

months

multi-tissue | liver | lung | heart | brain cortex | skeletal muscle | cerebellum | spleen

RRBS

mice

quadratically calibrated elastic net regression

17992

2017

430

2026-07-05

Wolf Reik

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-017-1203-5

Mouse multi-tissue RRBS age predictor: 17,992 common input loci are normalized and reduced to 329 nonzero clock sites, then quadratically calibrated.

quantile_normalization_and_scale_with_gold_standard

stubbs

True

Not yet

systemsage

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

multisystem biological age

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

older adults

PCA + elastic net regression

125175

2025

41

2026-07-05

Morgan Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-00958-3

Composite Systems Age integrates the 11 mortality-associated physiological-system scores plus a DNAm chronological-age prediction through PCA and Cox elastic-net regression, then rescales the result to an age-like value.

True

Not yet

systemsageblood

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

blood-system biological age

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

older adults

PCA + elastic net regression

125175

2025

41

2026-07-05

Morgan Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-00958-3

Blood-system component of Systems Age: a whole-blood DNAm score built from blood-system biomarker PCs and mortality training, returned on an age-like scale.

True

Not yet

systemsagebrain

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

brain-system biological age

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

older adults

PCA + elastic net regression

125175

2025

41

2026-07-05

Morgan Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-00958-3

Brain-system component of Systems Age: a whole-blood DNAm score built from brain-system biomarker and functional PCs and mortality training, returned on an age-like scale.

True

Not yet

systemsageheart

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

cardiovascular-system biological age

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

older adults

PCA + elastic net regression

125175

2025

41

2026-07-05

Morgan Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-00958-3

Heart-system component of Systems Age: a whole-blood DNAm score built from cardiovascular-system biomarkers and mortality training, returned on an age-like scale.

True

Not yet

systemsagehormone

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

endocrine-system biological age

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

older adults

PCA + elastic net regression

125175

2025

41

2026-07-05

Morgan Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-00958-3

Hormone-system component of Systems Age: a whole-blood DNAm score built from endocrine-system biomarkers and mortality training, returned on an age-like scale.

True

Not yet

systemsageimmune

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

immune-system biological age

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

older adults

PCA + elastic net regression

125175

2025

41

2026-07-05

Morgan Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-00958-3

Immune-system component of Systems Age: a whole-blood DNAm score built from immune-system biomarkers and mortality training, returned on an age-like scale.

True

Not yet

systemsageinflammation

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

inflammatory-system biological age

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

older adults

PCA + elastic net regression

125175

2025

41

2026-07-05

Morgan Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-00958-3

Inflammation-system component of Systems Age: a whole-blood DNAm score built from inflammatory biomarkers and mortality training, returned on an age-like scale.

True

Not yet

systemsagekidney

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

renal-system biological age

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

older adults

PCA + elastic net regression

125175

2025

41

2026-07-05

Morgan Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-00958-3

Kidney-system component of Systems Age: a whole-blood DNAm score built from renal-system biomarkers and mortality training, returned on an age-like scale.

True

Not yet

systemsageliver

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

hepatic-system biological age

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

older adults

PCA + elastic net regression

125175

2025

41

2026-07-05

Morgan Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-00958-3

Liver-system component of Systems Age: a whole-blood DNAm score built from hepatic-system biomarkers and mortality training, returned on an age-like scale.

True

Not yet

systemsagelung

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

pulmonary-system biological age

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

older adults

PCA + elastic net regression

125175

2025

41

2026-07-05

Morgan Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-00958-3

Lung-system component of Systems Age: a whole-blood DNAm score built from pulmonary-system biomarkers and mortality training, returned on an age-like scale.

True

Not yet

systemsagemetabolic

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

metabolic-system biological age

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

older adults

PCA + elastic net regression

125175

2025

41

2026-07-05

Morgan Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-00958-3

Metabolic-system component of Systems Age: a whole-blood DNAm score built from metabolic-system biomarkers and mortality training, returned on an age-like scale.

True

Not yet

systemsagemusculoskeletal

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

musculoskeletal-system biological age

mortality

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

older adults

PCA + elastic net regression

125175

2025

41

2026-07-05

Morgan Levine

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-00958-3

Musculoskeletal-system component of Systems Age: a whole-blood DNAm score built from musculoskeletal biomarkers and functional measures and mortality training, returned on an age-like scale.

True

Not yet

twelvecelldeconvolutebloodepicbas

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

basophil proportion

cell-type proportions

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

240

2022

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27864-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the basophil proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. The published EPIC IDOL-Ext library used 1,200 CpGs selected to optimize recovery of known artificial-mixture cell-type proportions; pyaging instead inherits Biolearn’s undocumented 240-CpG replacement, whose rows reproducibly comprise 10 positive and 10 negative maximal cell-versus-other methylation contrasts per subtype and are not a subset of the published 1,200 probes.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

twelvecelldeconvolutebloodepicbmem

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

memory B cell proportion

cell-type proportions

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

240

2022

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27864-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the memory B cell proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. The published EPIC IDOL-Ext library used 1,200 CpGs selected to optimize recovery of known artificial-mixture cell-type proportions; pyaging instead inherits Biolearn’s undocumented 240-CpG replacement, whose rows reproducibly comprise 10 positive and 10 negative maximal cell-versus-other methylation contrasts per subtype and are not a subset of the published 1,200 probes.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

twelvecelldeconvolutebloodepicbnv

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

naive B cell proportion

cell-type proportions

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

240

2022

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27864-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the naive B cell proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. The published EPIC IDOL-Ext library used 1,200 CpGs selected to optimize recovery of known artificial-mixture cell-type proportions; pyaging instead inherits Biolearn’s undocumented 240-CpG replacement, whose rows reproducibly comprise 10 positive and 10 negative maximal cell-versus-other methylation contrasts per subtype and are not a subset of the published 1,200 probes.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

twelvecelldeconvolutebloodepiccd4mem

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

memory CD4+ T cell proportion

cell-type proportions

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

240

2022

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27864-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the memory CD4+ T cell proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. The published EPIC IDOL-Ext library used 1,200 CpGs selected to optimize recovery of known artificial-mixture cell-type proportions; pyaging instead inherits Biolearn’s undocumented 240-CpG replacement, whose rows reproducibly comprise 10 positive and 10 negative maximal cell-versus-other methylation contrasts per subtype and are not a subset of the published 1,200 probes.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

twelvecelldeconvolutebloodepiccd4nv

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

naive CD4+ T cell proportion

cell-type proportions

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

240

2022

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27864-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the naive CD4+ T cell proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. The published EPIC IDOL-Ext library used 1,200 CpGs selected to optimize recovery of known artificial-mixture cell-type proportions; pyaging instead inherits Biolearn’s undocumented 240-CpG replacement, whose rows reproducibly comprise 10 positive and 10 negative maximal cell-versus-other methylation contrasts per subtype and are not a subset of the published 1,200 probes.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

twelvecelldeconvolutebloodepiccd8mem

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

memory CD8+ T cell proportion

cell-type proportions

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

240

2022

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27864-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the memory CD8+ T cell proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. The published EPIC IDOL-Ext library used 1,200 CpGs selected to optimize recovery of known artificial-mixture cell-type proportions; pyaging instead inherits Biolearn’s undocumented 240-CpG replacement, whose rows reproducibly comprise 10 positive and 10 negative maximal cell-versus-other methylation contrasts per subtype and are not a subset of the published 1,200 probes.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

twelvecelldeconvolutebloodepiccd8nv

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

naive CD8+ T cell proportion

cell-type proportions

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

240

2022

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27864-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the naive CD8+ T cell proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. The published EPIC IDOL-Ext library used 1,200 CpGs selected to optimize recovery of known artificial-mixture cell-type proportions; pyaging instead inherits Biolearn’s undocumented 240-CpG replacement, whose rows reproducibly comprise 10 positive and 10 negative maximal cell-versus-other methylation contrasts per subtype and are not a subset of the published 1,200 probes.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

twelvecelldeconvolutebloodepiceos

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

eosinophil proportion

cell-type proportions

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

240

2022

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27864-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the eosinophil proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. The published EPIC IDOL-Ext library used 1,200 CpGs selected to optimize recovery of known artificial-mixture cell-type proportions; pyaging instead inherits Biolearn’s undocumented 240-CpG replacement, whose rows reproducibly comprise 10 positive and 10 negative maximal cell-versus-other methylation contrasts per subtype and are not a subset of the published 1,200 probes.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

twelvecelldeconvolutebloodepicmono

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

monocyte proportion

cell-type proportions

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

240

2022

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27864-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the monocyte proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. The published EPIC IDOL-Ext library used 1,200 CpGs selected to optimize recovery of known artificial-mixture cell-type proportions; pyaging instead inherits Biolearn’s undocumented 240-CpG replacement, whose rows reproducibly comprise 10 positive and 10 negative maximal cell-versus-other methylation contrasts per subtype and are not a subset of the published 1,200 probes.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

twelvecelldeconvolutebloodepicneu

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

neutrophil proportion

cell-type proportions

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

240

2022

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27864-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the neutrophil proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. The published EPIC IDOL-Ext library used 1,200 CpGs selected to optimize recovery of known artificial-mixture cell-type proportions; pyaging instead inherits Biolearn’s undocumented 240-CpG replacement, whose rows reproducibly comprise 10 positive and 10 negative maximal cell-versus-other methylation contrasts per subtype and are not a subset of the published 1,200 probes.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

twelvecelldeconvolutebloodepicnk

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

natural killer cell proportion

cell-type proportions

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

240

2022

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27864-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the natural killer cell proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. The published EPIC IDOL-Ext library used 1,200 CpGs selected to optimize recovery of known artificial-mixture cell-type proportions; pyaging instead inherits Biolearn’s undocumented 240-CpG replacement, whose rows reproducibly comprise 10 positive and 10 negative maximal cell-versus-other methylation contrasts per subtype and are not a subset of the published 1,200 probes.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

twelvecelldeconvolutebloodepictreg

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

regulatory T-cell proportion

cell-type proportions

proportion

purified blood leukocytes

Illumina EPIC

adults

reference-based constrained deconvolution

240

2022

13

2026-07-05

Brock C. Christensen

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27864-7

Reference-based constrained deconvolution returning the regulatory T-cell proportion from EPIC-array blood methylation. The published EPIC IDOL-Ext library used 1,200 CpGs selected to optimize recovery of known artificial-mixture cell-type proportions; pyaging instead inherits Biolearn’s undocumented 240-CpG replacement, whose rows reproducibly comprise 10 positive and 10 negative maximal cell-versus-other methylation contrasts per subtype and are not a subset of the published 1,200 probes.

fill_with_reference_means

True

Not yet

vidalbralo

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood

Illumina 27K

adults

linear regression

8

2016

145

2026-07-05

Antonio Gonzalez

Frontiers in Genetics

https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2016.00126

Eight-CpG whole-blood chronological-age estimator selected by forward stepwise regression in 390 adults and calibrated by multiple linear regression; CpGs were chosen for compatibility with a single multiplex MS-SNuPE assay.

Not yet

weidner

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

biological age

chronological age

years

whole blood

Illumina 27K | bisulfite sequencing

adults

linear regression

3

2014

973

2026-07-05

Wolfgang Wagner

Genome Biology

https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2014-15-2-r24

Three-site whole-blood epigenetic-age estimator. The sites were selected from Illumina 27K blood profiles, and the final multivariate linear equation was fitted on targeted bisulfite-pyrosequencing beta values from 82 blood samples and validated in 69 independent samples.

Not yet

wu

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood

Illumina 27K | Illumina 450K

children

screened elastic net regression

111

2019

82

2026-07-05

Huiying Liang

Aging

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.102399

Child-specific 111-CpG blood age predictor built by sure independence screening followed by elastic net; pyaging converts the published month-scale output to years.

anti_log_linear

Not yet

xchrom

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

X-chromosome dosage

X-chromosome dosage

unitless

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

adults

principal component analysis

4047

2021

38

2026-07-05

Leonard C. Schalkwyk

BMC Genomics

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-021-07675-2

X-chromosome first-principal-component score used with the Y score to infer X dosage and classify 46,XX, 46,XY, 45,X, and 47,XXY samples.

sex_estimation_autosomal_zscore

True

Not yet

ychrom

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

Y-chromosome presence

Y-chromosome presence

unitless

whole blood

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

adults

principal component analysis

284

2021

38

2026-07-05

Leonard C. Schalkwyk

BMC Genomics

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-021-07675-2

Y-chromosome first-principal-component score used with the X score to infer Y presence and classify 46,XX, 46,XY, 45,X, and 47,XXY samples.

sex_estimation_autosomal_zscore

True

Not yet

yingadaptage

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

adaptive epigenetic age

chronological age

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adults

causality-weighted elastic net regression

999

2024

183

2026-07-05

Vadim N. Gladyshev

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-023-00557-0

Causality-enriched age predictor restricted to adaptive/protective age-related CpGs, with feature penalties weighted by EWMR causality scores.

Not yet

yingcausage

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adults

causality-weighted elastic net regression

585

2024

183

2026-07-05

Vadim N. Gladyshev

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-023-00557-0

Causality-enriched chronological-age clock using EWMR-prioritized CpGs and feature-specific penalties derived from causality scores.

Not yet

yingdamage

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

damaging epigenetic age

chronological age

years

whole blood

Illumina 450K

adults

causality-weighted elastic net regression

1089

2024

183

2026-07-05

Vadim N. Gladyshev

Nature Aging

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-023-00557-0

Causality-enriched age predictor restricted to damaging age-related CpGs, with feature penalties weighted by EWMR causality scores.

Not yet

zhangblup

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood | saliva

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

all ages

best linear unbiased prediction

319607

2019

519

2026-07-05

Peter M. Visscher

Genome Medicine

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-019-0667-1

High-dimensional chronological-age predictor using best linear unbiased prediction across the full quality-controlled set of 319,607 methylation probes.

scale_row

True

Not yet

zhangen

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

chronological age

chronological age

years

whole blood | saliva

Illumina 450K | Illumina EPIC

all ages

elastic net regression

514

2019

519

2026-07-05

Peter M. Visscher

Genome Medicine

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-019-0667-1

Elastic-net chronological-age predictor released from the largest multi-cohort training set, using 514 selected CpGs from predominantly blood plus saliva data.

scale_row

True

Not yet

zhangmortality

DNA methylation

Homo sapiens

mortality risk

mortality

unitless

whole blood

Illumina 450K

older adults

weighted linear score

10

2017

404

2026-07-05

Hermann Brenner

Nature Communications

https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14617

Ten-CpG whole-blood mortality risk score. Pyaging implements the paper supplement’s continuous LASSO-weighted score exactly (the sum of ten raw beta values multiplied by their published coefficients). The same study also defines a separate simplified 0-10 aberrant-methylation count based on cohort-specific quartile cutoffs.

Not yet